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This is the Wild-caught female Eastern King that I found a week and a half ago. I just snapped a few photo's of her in my light box. I found a slightly larger male on Friday under a board that was less than 30" from here I discovered her. He has very thin bands and I will post light box pic's of him as soon as he sheds.

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Peter Jolles
East Coast Colubrids
www.eastcoastcolubrids.com

What did you make your box out of? I have been playing around with that idea myself. I'll soon have a bonified Hanover County, Va corn snake in my collection. Figures since they are being found just 5 miles from my house.......and I've been driving 35-45 minutes to spots looking for them!!

Ralph,

How did you get a Hanover County Corn?

Here is a link to the light box I have ----

http://www.penncamera.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=4269

You need to buy lights that shine through the opaque material and a good camera and tripod.

Email me will you? I don't think I have your email addy.
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Peter Jolles
East Coast Colubrids
www.eastcoastcolubrids.com

Pete,
Just sent you an email thru KS with my personal email info.

Ralph

I've been thinking about this light box, thought it was a pretty good price, it comes with lights and misc. And I even have a 20.00 off any purchase over 50.00, for ordering something else a while back.
go to; www.skymall.com
and enter 73033D on the search.
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R.Bichlers Colubrids
http://www.webspawner.com/users/rbichler/index.html

I tried to edit them a little as per our conversation. I need to take a class on how to edit photo's.

What do you think of these pic's now? Do they look any better?

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Peter Jolles
East Coast Colubrids
www.eastcoastcolubrids.com

No offense to the new toy peter, but I think it makes them look kinda dull. They lose all their shine in the difuse light. Maybe you just need brighter lights???

Zach,

None taken. The camera I have has so many settings it is hard to take good pictures. I am not a graphic designer / professional photographer and I have found it very, very hard to take good pictures of colubrids.

... back to the drawing board!
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Peter Jolles
East Coast Colubrids
www.eastcoastcolubrids.com

pete I got some good advice from Shannon awhile back. Lower the ambient light and let the flash illuminate the pic. Its counter intuative but it works!

You mean lower the wattage in the bulbs (like from 100 watts to 60 watts)????????????????????
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Peter Jolles
East Coast Colubrids
www.eastcoastcolubrids.com

Or lower. I think the idea is to let the flash and camera program do their thing. Most cameras also have a step adjustment on them to either increase or decrease exposure. I find that low level ambient light, fill flash and a step down of -0.3 works for my camera quite well. This way i seem to capture the colors and the contrast is not too washed out by an overly bright flash. The best thing to do is experiment with exposures. Don't worry about getting good poses. Once you get exposure down then you can work on focus, and composition.